“I couldn’t suppress my urges after committing the first murder,”
Biography Date of Birth: Oct. 10, 1969 Nationality: South Korea Family: 3rd of the 5 siblings Marriage: 4 times with 3 children Conviction: Death Personality: Many of his neighbors say that he was very caring and friendly. He would even often help out people. However, after this incident, he was not like what the others thought he was. Although he heard the news that he was sentenced to death, he was very bold and shameless. It seemed like he did not really care what others said to him and that he was sentenced for doing a not so big of a deal. It has been found out that his wife just remembers him as an abusive husband.
Victim Profile >Killed 7 people from Dec. 14th of 2006 to Nov. 2008 >the people he killed has a big range of age from 20s to 50s >but only picked on women or children - Dec. 2006 killed a 45 year old woman after bringing her to his car - 10 days later, killed a 37 year old woman whom he met in a noraebang - for another 3 months, he killed 3 people - Nov. 2008, killed a 48 year old - 40 days later, killed a college student who was tricked by him who told him that he would give the student a ride to get there faster - he strangled all 7 of them, took off their clothes, and buried them secretly in the mountains - put his mother-in-law's house on fire - this earned him a considerable amount of money due to the insurances that he had made for his wife and mother-in-law
Method of Operation -strangled all the 7 women with stockings -to remove evidence, he cut the fingers of them and burned his car -burned the whole house which killed his mother-in-law and wife -buried the dead bodies in the mountains
“I couldn’t suppress my urges after committing the first murder,”
Biography
Date of Birth: Oct. 10, 1969
Nationality: South Korea
Family: 3rd of the 5 siblings
Marriage: 4 times with 3 children
Conviction: Death
Personality: Many of his neighbors say that he was very caring and friendly. He would even often help out people. However, after this incident, he was not like what the others thought he was. Although he heard the news that he was sentenced to death, he was very bold and shameless. It seemed like he did not really care what others said to him and that he was sentenced for doing a not so big of a deal. It has been found out that his wife just remembers him as an abusive husband.
Victim Profile
>Killed 7 people from Dec. 14th of 2006 to Nov. 2008
>the people he killed has a big range of age from 20s to 50s
>but only picked on women or children
- Dec. 2006 killed a 45 year old woman after bringing her to his car
- 10 days later, killed a 37 year old woman whom he met in a noraebang
- for another 3 months, he killed 3 people
- Nov. 2008, killed a 48 year old
- 40 days later, killed a college student who was tricked by him who told him that he would give the student a ride to get there faster
- he strangled all 7 of them, took off their clothes, and buried them secretly in the mountains
- put his mother-in-law's house on fire
- this earned him a considerable amount of money due to the insurances that he had made for his wife and mother-in-law
Method of Operation
-strangled all the 7 women with stockings
-to remove evidence, he cut the fingers of them and burned his car
-burned the whole house which killed his mother-in-law and wife
-buried the dead bodies in the mountains
Video on the News
http://www.ytn.co.kr/_comm/pop_mov.php?s_mcd=0103&s_hcd=&key=200902221752381621
Sources
Serial Killer News. N.p., n.d. Web. 7 Dec 2010. <http://twistedminds.creativescapism.com/notorious-crimes/a-korean-serial-killer-kang-ho/>.
"강호순." N.p., n.d. Web. 7 Dec 2010. <http://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/강호순>.
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